Hello everyone, Me and a friend have come up with what could be an interesting idea. Basically a hosting service, but users get to customise their own package instead of buying preset plans. It's comparable to a system like one found on the Dell website where you can get a computer and then customise it, choosing to add more RAM or get a bigger hard drive, except with hosting. A basic account would come with a user account, a certain amount of disk space, a RAM quota (and some burstable) on a server, which provides ssh and ftp access. This would come at a flat rate per-month. The user could then configure this to add things like web hosting, extra RAM, access to vnc and other software/features to this account for an extra amount added onto the monthly rate. I think that this would be useful for people that just want a shell account on the net for various reasons, as well as people that want to run an SVN repository or other piece of software without having to buy a full blown server. It means that people are only paying for what they will use (within reasonable bounds, this would have to be engineered so a profit is still made), and since people aren't reserving resources they won't use, we can sell them. So what do you think of this idea? Obviously this will cost a fair amount of money to start up, purchasing an initial server will cost a lot of money and it will have to be plugged into a co-location place, but perhaps it could still be a sucessful endeavour? Do you have any suggestions? Would you consider using a service like this? Thanks, -- Luke Slater :O) this text is protected by international copyright. it is illegal for anybody apart from the recipient to keep a copy of this text. dieser text wird von internationalem urheberrecht geschuetzt. allen ausser dem/der empfaenger/-in ist untersagt, eine kopie dieses textes zu behalten.